Keywords
Representative Bureaucracy Theory, Equity and Police Use of Force, Police Caused Homicides, Excessive Force Complaints, Violence Against Police
Abstract
The theory of Representative Bureaucracy is a well-studied concept in Public Administration, positing that more representative government agencies will lead to greater equity for underserved groups. This paper is review of empirical applications of the theory to the use of force by police and it will show that the work does not support the idea that more representative police departments correlate with lower rates of use of force against minority groups. Implications for future studies are addressed at the end of the article.
Publication Date
August 2019
DOI
10.15760/hgjpa.2019.3.2.8
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29275
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Herrera, Jacob
(2019)
"No Easy Answer: Representative Bureaucracy and Police Use of Force,"
Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs:
Vol. 3:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
https://doi.org/10.15760/hgjpa.2019.3.2.8
